Canterbury and Westland. 



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Table II — continued. 



Name 





Difference 

 between 



Length 



Fall of 



OF 





two 

 Stations. 



of 



Eivers. 



Eivers 



ElTEES. 





Per Mile. 







Feet. 



Miles. 



Feet. 



Wairnakariri 



From junction of two main source branches 











to junction of Crow River 2273 feet, 



334 



4 



83£ 





*From junction of Crow River to junction 











of Bealey River 2065 feet 



208 



5 



41| 





From junction of Bealey to junction of 











Esk River 1562 feet ... 



503 



21 



24 





From junction of Esk River to junction 











of Kowhai River 1003 feet* 



559 



17 



33 





*From junction of Kowhai River to White's 











old Accommodation House in river 











bed 605 feet 



398 



15 



26i 





From "White's old Accommodation House 











605 feet, to tidal boundary ... 



605 



22 



271- 





From near the crossing of the North -road 











to sea ... 





4 





Selwyn 



From entrance into plains to Lake Elles- 











mere ... ... ... ... mean 



767 



29 



26$ 





From entrance into plains 767 feet, to rail- 











way crossing 212 feet ... 



555 



16| 



33| 





*From railway crossing 212 feet, to Lake 











Ellesmere 



212 



12| 



18 



Table III. — Showing the Fall of the River Waitaki. 



For comparison I may offer the principal data in my possession of 

 tlie main branch of that River, and after its junction with the other 

 brandies of the "Waitaki to its month. 



Tasman 



Waitaki 



tFrom the Tasman Glacier 2456 feet, to 

 Lake Pukaki, 1717 feet 



From outlet of Lake Pukaki to mouth of 

 Waitaki 



If Lake Pukaki should be filled up by the 

 River Tasman, the River Waitaki 

 would show the following results 



The beginning of the old post-pliocene fan 

 of the River Pukaki, the main branch 

 of the Waitaki, is situate 150 feet 

 above that river at the lake, which 

 shows that the former outlet of that 

 enormous glacier would have bad only 

 a fall to the sea of 



30 



21 



21 



23 



* The numbers to which an asterisk has been prefixed are results obtained with the spirit-level 

 by the PubUc Works Department. 



t The length of the Kivers is taken by following their general direction. 



% As for that river, the last three miles before it enters the Lake is almost without any fall, it 

 flowing through swampy deltaic ground, I have calculated two miles less for its course than it 

 actually has, so as to give a more correct result of its gradient. 



